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PHP License Finally Approved By OSI

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 3, 2003 @05:58AM from the and-there-was-much-rejoicing dept.

O'Reilly's new news site is reporting that PHP's new license, v3.0, has finally been approved by the OSI as meeting the open source definition. There was a small technical issue that prevented it in previous versions.

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Re:From the article by gl4ss · 2003-09-03 06:05 · Score: 4, Informative

well.. i didn't rtfa..

but have you thouhgt about that the php license is for the php runtime system, NOT for code you write _in_ php language?

(i'm just pulling this out of my hat/ass)

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Funny that by olivermoffat · 2003-09-03 06:31 · Score: 4, Insightful

opensource.org has been running PHP all this time
*sigh of relief* by Eneff · 2003-09-03 06:34 · Score: 4, Funny

I am now authorized by my masters to use PHP.